Conductor s book



(No Model.)

M. L. JOHNSON. OONDUOTORS BOOK.

N0. 329 3 15. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FEicE.

MADISON L. JOHNSON, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

CONDUCTORS BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,315, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed July 22, 1884. Serial No. 138,505.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MADISON L. J OHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galena, in the county of Jo Daviess and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conductors Books; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figurelof the drawingsisa face view, book open, showing page A. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing page B. Fig. 3 represents the coupon pages 0 broken away. Fig. 4 shows list-page. Fig. 5 represents check page E. Fig. 6 is the recapitulation page F, and Fig. 7 shows the notice page G.

This invention relates to means by which a railway-conductor may register and keep an account of the cash fares that he collects; and it consists in making a device to answer the said purposes in book form, provided with detachable check leaves and coupons, any one of the former of which is torn from the book and given to a passenger, (who has no ticket, but offers his fare in cash,) and answers the purpose of a ticket, two coupons being torn from the book and attached properly to the same, one of which coupons has printed on it the name of the place the passenger ships from and the other the name of his place of destination. The book is also provided with check-list leaves, each having upon it two printed columns containing in order the names of the stations along the route, one of which columns is headed by the word From and the other by the word To, and each is i11- tended to be properly punched by the conductor when he tears out and gives a check.

- The book is furnished at the beginning with a page on which is registered the day, month, and year that the conductor receives it, which page has on it the names of the conductor and (No model.)

auditing-clerk, and has the stamp of the office affixed by the latter. At the end of the book is a page containing a notice to conductors, and also a page 011 which he marks all the coupons given by him, and states amounts of money collected, affixing his signature below the said statement. The auditing-clerk then examines the book, affixes the stamp of the office at the proper place on the said page, and signs his name on the same.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the first leaf of the book, having printed upon it, in any proper manner, the name of the railroad using it, and the names of the stations between which it is used. The second leaf, B, has printed upon it the name of the station from which the book issues, and has blank spaces for the following: the day, month, and year of its reception by the conductor, the train-number, conductors signature, stamp of the office of issue, and the signature of the auditing-clerk. The third, and a proper number of following leaves, 0 O, &c., are printed wit-h the names of the stations on the route. Each of these leaves is divided into coupons by the line of perforations c c, &c., and each station on the route has its name printed on the coupons of one or more leaves,with the word From before the name of the station on one half of said coupon, and the Word To before the same on the other half, as From Chicago and To Chicago. These coupons are made with their backs gummed similar to a postage-stamp. Following the leaves 0 O are a number of leaves, D D, &c., each headed with the words List Sheet, and having printed below the same two vertical columns containing the names of the stations on the route in order, the one list being headed by the word From and the other by the word To. Following the leaves D D are an equal number of leaves, E E, each having printed upon it the word Check, and having proper blank spaces for the fastening or gumming of two coupons upon the leaf. Each of the leaves E has a longitudinal line, 6, of perforations near its inner edge, by

means of which it may be easily torn from the book. F, the next to the last leaf of the book, has printed upon it the following words:

Recapz'tulation.

Coupons from Coupons to Amounts collected IO a a I I a n o u a 1 u o a n I I u I u Iv Conductor. [Stamp] I5 I have examined the above and find it correct.

two so paid.

Each of said sheets answers for one fare only.

3 5 General Passenger Agent.

The following is the manner of using the device: The auditing-clerk, after filling up the blank spaces for the day, month, year, and train-number, writes the conductors name who is to receive the book, and affixes the stamp of the office and his own signature, all in their proper places on page A. The conductor, when a passenger offers him a cash fare, tears out coupons representing stations from and to which the, passenger is going, and

to the list sheet and punch the names of the pastes them on the ends of one of the leaves marked Check, punches them and gives the said leaf to the passenger, the same serving as a ticket. The conductor then punches in any one of the list-sheet leaves D the names of such stations in their proper columns. At

the end of the trip the conductor marks in the leaf F, under the head Recapitulation, the coupons given out to and from different points, marks the amount of cash received,

and signs his name, in the place indicated. The auditing-clerk then takes the cash from the conductor, examines the book, and, if everything is correct, affixes the stamp of the office, signs his name-in the proper place, and returns the book to the general office.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patc i 1. In a book to register and keep account of cash fares, the combination, with the de tachable check-leaves E E and leaves C 0, divided by the perforations c 0 into coupons, each coupon having the name of a station on one side andgum or paste on the other, of means, substantially as described, for registering each coupon given out during a run between the stations named in the book and ascertaining the amount of cash taken in, substantially as specified. v

2. In a book to register and keep an account of cash fares during a run between any two stations named in said book, the combination, with the leaves A, B, and F, and leaf G, havingthe instructions to conductors upon it, of the check-leaves E E, provided with the line of perforations e, the coupon-leaves C C, provided with the line of perforations '0 c, and the check-list leaves D D, equal in number to the check-leaves, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MADISON L. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

JAooB FAWcET'r, W. O. AVERY. 

